Artist Quotes - Page 84

I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

And if you were a very sophisticated con artist, what would you do to convince people that you were from the future? What benefits would that give you? For us, it's also a question of, "Is she or isn't she?" That's really a major part of the movie.

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots. To point a camera at something does not qualify you as an artist because everybody has done that.

One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.

Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.

There are 100,000 artists on Pandora & 70% are indies; artists making $100K - $2 million.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.